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Secret societies?
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Originally posted by Mysterio
This is plainly nonsense. I don't run the government but I am allowed voice my concerns about the way the country is run. And if I don't like the way this countrys run I shouldn't have to leave it for having an opinion.
They would throw a party because I left boards.ie? I'm honoured that I've made such an impact.
The rest of your post is drivel.
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Originally posted by Mr.Applepie
Ha ha? Sad and pointless life? Sorry but you're on the internet for goodness sake, you can't be throwing out insults like that! Rather lame indeed.
Very witty - oh and their isn't spelled as 'thier' while we're at it. :rolleyes:.0 -
I’m going to get it trouble for this!!!Originally posted by DiscoStu
what a free french housing scheme?
I’m interested it in how far they will go… deleting this message? Banning me? or ????
I don’t know much about the Free(you know whats)
And I don’t know if the ones on boards.ie have links with the main group
But this is some interesting text about them (thanks to the good old BBC)…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_8000/8063.stm -
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*********s - moral guardians or centre of corruption
Opponents say Masonic rituals and oaths could put members at odds with public duty
Depending on your point of view *********ry is either a gentleman's club devoted to moral and spiritual values or a corrupt organisation intent on looking after number one.
One thing is certain - *********s would like to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.
And it is the Masons obsession with secrecy that causes suspicion in non-members.
Even their origins are open to question. Some say the first examples of masonry date back to the Egyptian pyramid builders although modern *********s can only claim a 300-year history.
Throughout their history, stories of rituals and threats have leaked out of the society.
But it is also how the membership is made up that worries some quarters.
Trumped up charges
The *********s are estimated to have more than 300,000 members in the UK. Stories are rife of masons winning promotion because their boss is also a member.
So are tales of accused men standing in the dock giving the judge a sly sign indicating he is a mason, although evidence of such cases remains in the realms of urban myth.
But Martin Short, author of Inside the Brotherhood, told the Home Affairs Select Committee how two Asian businessmen stumbled on a Masonic dinner at a hotel and were prosecuted on trumped up charges of assaulting police officers.
He said it later became apparent that the 'victim' police officers were lodge members as was the investigating officer, a senior official in the Crown Prosecution Service and the hotel manager. The jury acquitted the businessmen.
Two years ago, the select committee said: "We believe that nothing so much undermines public confidence in public institutions as the knowledge that some public servants are members of a secret society, one of whose aims is mutual self-advancement."
Masonic rules state that members must do all they can to support each other, to look after each other and to keep each others' lawful secrets.
And for those breaking the rules the penalties as outlined in initiation rituals, where the new member is blindfolded and wearing a hangman's noose, are harsh - their throat will be slit, their tongue torn out and then they will be buried in the sand.
It is not that anti-Masonists believe Masons will carry out the threats but they do argue that the oaths of allegiance could put them at odds with public duty.
More than 250 years of secrecy
Since 1717, when four London lodges came together to form a Grand Lodge based on the concepts of brotherly love, relief and truth, non-members have been suspicious of *********ry.
But it was only 14 years ago that the Masons began courting public acceptance with a leaflet on the positive aspects of their 'craft'.
Eight years later the media were invited to attend a masonic meeting for the first time.
*********s argue their organisation is open to any man regardless of religion or colour.
They say that all someone needs to join is a belief in a god, but not necessarily the Christian God, and a good reputation.
They insist that a Mason, who is a judge, for example, could not be put in a compromising position because *********ry demands members respect the law.
And ********* literature says the society condemns members who use membership to promote his personal or business interests.
Masons date with destiny
The Home Affairs Select Committee appears not so sure - it has summoned two leading Masons to the House of Commons on Thursday.
The committee wants to question them about masonic involvement in the John Stalker disciplinary hearing, which forced the former Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester to abandon his inquiry into an alleged shoot-to-kill policy being operated in Northern Ireland.
They will also be asked about *********ry in the discredited and disbanded West Midlands Serious Crimes Squad.
So far the Masons summoned, Commander Michael Higham, grand secretary of the United Lodge of England, and John Hamill, the lodge's librarian, have, in time honoured fashion, refused to reveal the names of masons involved in the cases. “ - BBC Online0 -
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Originally posted by Murphys
But of course I've been missing out in soo much by not forming complex relationships with my boards.ie/vbulletin buddies
I love it when i get to post one of these
Although this ones already been posted this thread, iirc, which suggests that its getting old and boring, not to mention pointless (which it was since Dev's first post).
I call for a thread lock.
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